Can a universe have kids? || Junior Breakthrough Challenge 2024

The multiverse might just be a set of cosmic matryoshka dolls. #breakthroughjuniorchallenge
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Information Sources :
- The effect of changes to fundamental constants, (Yang, How does Planck's constant influence the macroscopic world?, 2016)
- The fundamentals of Schwarzschild cosmology, (Pathria, The Universe as a Black Hole, 1972)
- Cosmological natural selection as an alternative to the anthropic principle, (Smolin & Susskind, The anthropic principle 2004)
- Further information can be found in the work of Nikodem Popławski, who has done extensive research in this topic, but I unfortunately could not recognise by name due to the time limitation. If you find this topic interesting, I would highly recommend checking out the 'National Geographic' and 'Science' magazines for the articles he contributed to.
Music Sources :
- "The Capybara Song" (0:26 to 0:32), "Universal Evolution" (0:57 to 1:47) and "Koko the Kosmic Koi" (1:52 to 1:57) were all composed and recorded by me. They are free and completely in public domain under a CC0 license.
- The remaining sound effects (nature ambience, miscellaneous sfx) are from freesound.org, and are all public domain.
Graphics and 3D models :
- All 3D modelling and animation was done by me in Blender.
- The remaining 2D animations were created in Canva, Desmos, and directly in my editing software.
Thank you for watching the video!